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Every app has to have fucking AI now for some reason.

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 5 months ago (21 children)
[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago (12 children)

I mostly use it to make international calls cause sometimes the country my folks are living in shuts down the cellular internet for some reason when major exams/riots are happening and whatsapp stops working.

Imaging telling a whole nation of people they can't use internet on their 500+ dollar phone. The fuck did they buy them for, playing temple run?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Btw you can suggest them the Briar messenger app. It can send messages via nearby peoples phones if they also have Briar. So if enough people installed it, a city could have it's own messaging network even when the official one is down

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nice, I don't think I'll be able to convince the whole city to install it though :-)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you could suggest it to people who organize protest

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Those "briar clients" still use the "same" internet...

It could work if clients/nodes would exchange data using other channel (lora/bluetooth/etc)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It could work if clients/nodes would exchange data using other channel

That's exactly what it does

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